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Black Friday and Small Business Saturday are not new to shoppers in Homer, but the city’s chamber of commerce gave it a new twist this year.

Pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough, is on the rise in Alaska. Health officials say the best way to protect yourself is through vaccines.

A Homer local has been named 2022 Historian of the Year by the Alaska Historical Society. Tom Kizzia is a journalist and author who came to the Kenai Peninsula nearly five decades ago. He spent three years with the Homer News in the late 1970s before moving to the Anchorage Daily News, where he worked for 25 years.

After more than a decade at KBBI — and 15 years in the community — Desiree Hagen is leaving Homer to become news director at the public radio station in Kotzebue — which hasn’t had a news department in two years.

KBBI’s Quinton Chandler and Governor Bill Walker discuss an upcoming special session in which lawmakers will debate his plan to buy interest in the Alaska…

Jenny Carroll, Information Officer for the City of Homer, Nurse Lorne Carroll from the Homer Public Health Clinic, Derotha Ferraro of South Peninsula…

In the Alaska Legislature, the first special session of the summer is underway. Governor Mike Dunleavy called the session beginning May 21 to address his…

Correction: In a previous version of this story, KBBI incorrectly stated that Northern Dynasty Minerals was no longer affiliated with the Pebble…

A new educational program is working to stop marine debris before it starts. Students from schools across the Kenai Peninsula have partnered with the…

KBBI founding volunteer Gary Thomas died Tuesday evening. Thomas was checking on a friend’s house off Cottonwood Hill Ave near East End Road. According to…